And in a mirror universe where that decision got made someone's arguing "maybe we shouldn't have cut funding to Israel if it meant allowing the genocide in Ukraine."
lengau
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A few off the top of my head:
- Every time I try it I have installation issues, across a wide variety of hardware. (Newbies have also reported to me that "Linux can't even install" after trying Mint - when I sit them down with a Kubuntu install on the same machine it tends to go flawlessly)
- Cinnamon seems to have stability issues (this is one of the more common things I've had now ie friends complain about and ask for help with)
- the blocking of snapd in the repos and the way it's done can be pretty confusing to newbies when they click a "get it on the snap store" button and things just fall apart. (I also think their blocking of snapd itself is fairly user hostile, but the fact that the UX around it is so bad is also a problem)
- On the subject of blocking packages in the repos - their own packages seem to have file conflicts with the Ubuntu repos they use but don't put the relevant "Conflicts" lines in their deb metadata, which I've seen cause conflicts for newbies that break apt. (KDE Neon does a much better job of taking care of this IMO, but I certainly don't view it as a beginner friendly distro either)
- The lack of a Plasma version is a major downside to me. (Random aside: I once had a newbie ask me how she could get the pretty version of Linux I had because hers was so ugly - she was running stock Mint and I was on Fedora's KDE spin)
Yeah, I really don't get why so many people call Mint good for beginners. There are so many reasons it's not, yet it has this incredibly vocal crowd who insist it's so fantastic.
I'm not here to change your mind, but man... Mint and Manjaro are not great introductions to Linux IMO.
Yeah, adding a separate microarchitecture like amd64v3 would be a separate item. They might be able to do that with amd64v3 overlay repos that only contain packages that most benefit from the newer microarchitecture.
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My laptop had 2 USB4 with type C connectors, a USB 3.2 type A connector and a USB 3.2 type C connector, but recently it's had an HDMI connector instead of the 3.2 type C.
Especially if you're using raid5 for multi disk.
Kinda amazing how some people would rather spend their energy denying well-known facts than just admit that both players are kinda crappy...
Still pretty important given how many systems are using the 1.0 series.
Snaps have had a permission system for at least 5 years now.
Containers are great, but I find Docker's way of making container images to be pretty bad, personally. Fortunately you can use other tools to create OCI images and then copy them into Docker, as the runtime is pretty nice for dev machines.